From: sbw@naucse.UUCP (Steve Wampler)
Subject: Re: A self reproducing program in Ada
Date: 21 Mar 90 20:05:29 GMT [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1956@naucse.UUCP> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 53671@microsoft.UUCP
From article <53671@microsoft.UUCP>, by jamesth@microsoft.UUCP (James THIELE):
> In article <900319200431.23c00532@SIC.Epfl.CH> madmats%elcgl.epfl.ch@VMA.CC.CMU.EDU (Mats Weber) writes:
>>[146 lines of Ada code deleted]
> I've seen *much* shorter self-reproducing programs in FORTRAN.
>
> Does this mean FORTRAN is more sophisticated than Ada?
Actually, since you can fit the self-replicating programs for a
lot of languages simultaneously (i.e. join them together) in the
space of this one Ada program, maybe this means that Ada is all these
other languages rolled into one?
Now I know why I like Icon so much.
--
Steve Wampler
{....!arizona!naucse!sbw}
{sbw@naucse.cse.nau.edu}
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1990-03-19 19:04 A self reproducing program in Ada Mats Weber
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